An analysis of state action plans to combat climate change reveal a lack of innovative approaches and a high variation in budgets apart from the fact that many did not move ahead from the business as usual scenario. However, the exercise by 28 Indian states is one of the largest sub-national action plans in the world and has at least started a conversation on decentralised planning for climate action. The Centre has approved the climate action plan for Himachal Pradesh so far with a budget of Rs 1,560 crore. Minister of state for environment Prakash Javadekar said in Parliament that the National Steering Committee on Climate Change has endorsed the plan by Himachal Pradesh.

The analysis in the report, ?From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India as a Door-opener to a Sustainable Future? by the Centre for Policy Research, authored by Navroz K Dubash and Anu Jogesh is based on an analysis of five States over two years. It says that while it was positive that States were preparing action plans, some of the plans in their current avatar were are not immediately actionable. The study finds shortcomings in approach, process, formulation of outcomes and implementation efforts.

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